Former Johor PAS Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat said the claim made by The Star in a chart on ‘Major cases involving deviant groups in Malaysia’, was “inaccurate and rude”.
The Star had listed the 1985 incident in which Ibrahim, better known as Ibrahim Libya, and 13 of his followers were killed after police laid siege on a madrasah in Memali, near Baling in Kedah, under controversial circumstances.
Suhaizan said to date, the Memali incident was yet to be affirmed as a “terrorist activity” and that it involved Ibrahim, who was the leader of the community there.
Suhaizan, who is going for the post of Youth chief post in the PAS elections, said it was improper to name Ibrahim as a Malaysian terrorist, as reported by The Star, despite two members of the Kedah fatwa council, Yahya Junid and Azahari Abdul Razak, recognising him as syahid (a martyr).
“I urge The Star to withdraw the news which was published today and to officially apologise to Ibrahim's family members,” he said.
Suhaizan's position was shared by Kedah PAS Youth chief Mohd Nasir Zakaria, who also condemned the erroneous report published by the MCA-owned English daily.
Nasir said such reports seemed to derogate the present Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Kedah ruler Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, who had once visited Ibrahim's grave.
“The media is trying to overtake the role of the religious authorities by publishing such news. The news is malicious and unethical and we urge the daily to withdraw its report and to apologise.
“We will also lodge a police report within three days and hand over a protest memorandum to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong as the Islamic head in the country,” Nasir said in a separate statement.
In a chart on violent deviant groups in Malaysia in its issue today, The Star listed Ibrahim Libya's followers as one of them. The incident to arrest Ibrahim resulted in 14 civilians and four policemen being killed.
Msiakini
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